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New Member
United States
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Sometimes feels like the mint doesn't really think about design sensibilities anymore and just puts pictures straight onto coins. The State Quarter program should confirm that for anyone,  . And that's just the beginning. Edited by jmgi2020
10/13/2021 6:49 pm
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Valued Member
United States
465 Posts |
I bought the Christa McAuliffe coin. I liked her image and the reverse has a teacher showing children the stars. It was very well done IMHO. Last year I bought the women's suffrage movement coin. They were ok. I liked the period style well because I'm old enough to have read about it. The new designs of the quarters don't do much for me. They have already settled on the designs so there is no going back. I hope they grow on me.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The Great Britain alphabet 10 pence coins came first.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Really wish they would've just gone with the classic Susan b Anthony design
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19157 Posts |
I'm good with where it's headed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1694 Posts |
I like the Maya Angelou design but think the others are not so nice. I like the idea of the coins but not the designs so much.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1277 Posts |
Who's in charge of deciding which women are important?
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Valued Member
United States
233 Posts |
It seems to me that they can't help themselves anymore. They created the State Quarter program to spur a new generation of coin collectors. The State Quarter program has finished but they haven't. Next was the territories, then ATB and now this. After awhile some people will throw up their hands and say "I can't keep up with this." Or, "I just don't care anymore." This is similar to why I stopped collecting baseball cards in 1992, waaaaaaay to many were produced and too many different "varieties" |
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It seems to me that they can't help themselves anymore. They will keep doing it as long as there are buyers. |
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United States
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Not so much buyers as seigniorage profits They make much more money from the increased mintages due to people hoarding them from circulation than they do from sales to collectors. Before the State Quarter program the mint typically made between 1.6 and 2 billion quarters a year. By the second year of the State Quarters they were up to around 5 billion per year. As the State Quarters and then the ATB quartes have continued interest has cooled, but in 2020 they still made 2.76 billion. That's 760 million more than the best year pre State Quarter, and the 760 million extra quarters represents $60 million in extra seigniorage revenue. Edited by Conder101
10/20/2021 6:02 pm
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United States
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Not so much buyers as seigniorage profits Good point. While my mind was dwelling on the various NCLT products, I must have forgotten the quarters are actually meant to circulate.  |
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Valued Member
United States
58 Posts |
enough of the silly quarter designs already
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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One reason illustrated designs so often don't translate well to a coin is the illustrations usually include shading, and even large areas of full black, whereas standard coins, of course, have no such shading.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oh Noooo! MORE quarters...  |
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One reason illustrated designs so often don't translate well to a coin is the illustrations usually include shading, and even large areas of full black, whereas standard coins, of course, have no such shading. Yup. I always reserve final judgment for when I see the coin design in actual relief. |
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